A FLEMISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
BY URBAIN AND DANIEL LEYNIERS, BRUSSELS, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, AFTER JAN VAN ORLEY AND AUGUSTIN COPPENS
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a scene from 'The Story of Telemachus', with the seated Telemachus telling his story to Calypso and her attending maidens, within a rocky landscape, his mentor beyond and the goddes Minerva observing from a cloud above, lacking borders, within a later blue slip
10 ft. 7 in. x 16 ft. 8 in. (322 cm. x 508 cm.)
A FLEMISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
BY URBAIN AND DANIEL LEYNIERS, BRUSSELS, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, AFTER JAN VAN ORLEY AND AUGUSTIN COPPENS
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a scene from 'The Story of Telemachus', with the seated Telemachus telling his story to Calypso and her attending maidens, within a rocky landscape, his mentor beyond and the goddes Minerva observing from a cloud above, lacking borders, within a later blue slip
10 ft. 7 in. x 16 ft. 8 in. (322 cm. x 508 cm.)